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Location: Ohio - USA
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Nice AAR! ?
I do like a lot of terrain, as I said, but sometimes I'd just cover the board with craters!
And a few other bitz, like a M/Machine crashed shuttle craft, etc.
But we like to vary the environment. We'd stay away from huge urban areas, and prefer, the countryside like rural Europe, with streams, crops, small hamlets, ancient/alien ruins, etc, scattered about. Or a desert or jungle, with the occasional ruin(s) and/or village.
But we've had big towns in the mix too. If I use all my urban structures/building from all iterations/sources, we'd have a rather large town, but never did it, yet. Large urban areas tend to limit maneuver and it becomes, very congested like we see in Mark's pics and AFVs are on top of each other and are quite vulnerable to infantry attacks. A situation that we have seen recently in Iraq.
May I also recommend the AT-1/SM-1 random scenario system, we swear by it. The other systems, SM-2, E-40K and E-A are O.K. but are not as good as the AT-1/SM-1 system, IMO.
I remember the SM-2 and now even the E-A system, somewhat, reminds us of an Easter Egg Hunt!  ?
I think Jervis did that because it "forces" the "bumbling" players to do something other than line up - shoot once and run into the middle and use use ranged weapons as clubs and vehicles as jalopies in a Demo Derby! (IMO)  ?
Well again, take a look at the AT-1/SM-1 system. And I didn't mean to say any of you are bumbling commanders, but I've never played any of you so you may think the same of me! 
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?I noticed in your battle reports that you seem to have so much open space and I am curious as to how you don't get bored. . . 
